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KSU has been referred to as Georgia's International University due to its focus on global learning for engaged citizenship. As an integral part of KSU’s “Get Global" initiative, the Global Center for Social Change prepares WellStar College Health and Human Services students, graduates, faculty, staff and administrators to become global, engaged citizens through international and intercultural education and participation.
The “Get Global” and QEP initiatives of the Global Center for Social Change support KSU’s 2007-2012 strategic plan of Global Learning through Engaged Citizenship, “preparing students to be leaders and creating a campus culture that assures an appreciation of diversity.”
For more information about The Global Center for Social Change ‘Get Global’ Program, please contact the Director, Dr. Ben Johnson, Associate Dean for Community Partnerships and Global Initiatives, or visit the Kennesaw State University "Get Global" website |
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Focusing on improving global learning at KSU, our QEP is “Global Learning for Engaged Citizenship” and is defined as an educational process that enhances one’s competencies for participating responsibly in our diverse, multicultural, international, and interdependent world.
In today’s global marketplace, it’s important that we possess the skills to meet the demands of an interconnected world, a world where we are as likely to be doing business with someone in Vienna, Austria as we are with someone in Vienna, Georgia.
The overall purpose of the QEP is to assure within the next five years that global learning rises to the top of KSU’s educational priorities and learning outcomes. Its success will be evaluated on the institution’s accomplishment of ten key goals that support the QEP’s overall purpose.
Graduating seniors recognize and incorporate the diversity, commonalities, and interdependence of the world’s people, nations, and/or environmental systems into their general knowledge, academic specializations and worldviews.
Graduating students demonstrate effective and appropriate communication, interaction and teamwork with people of different nationalities and cultures, either locally or internationally.
Graduating students demonstrate respect and support for the common good of the world community, including its diversity, attention to human rights, concern for the welfare of others, and sustainability of natural systems and species.
The WellStar College of Health and Human Services (WCHHS) has established a Learning Coordinator whose primary responsibility is to:
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Provide baseline WCHHS data capture via a web-based system, creating and maintaining an inventory of global learning opportunities for students, student participation in each of these opportunities, and identifying global learning faculty, staff and administrator specialists |
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Enhance and expand current WCHHS global learning opportunities and participation |
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Work with the Assurance of Student Learning (AOL) Council to collect baseline data in the unit, for programs with: |
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KSU’s Global Learning Outcomes
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Global learning opportunities that link to the outcomes
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Assessment of the global learning outcomes and utilization of the results for global learning curriculum expansions and improvements
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Define the Global Learning Certification for undergraduate and graduate students |
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Develop criteria/rubrics to evaluate student attainment of the certification at the three developmental levels |
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Determine the method (e.g., portfolios, case study, etc.) and method categories (e.g., degree credit global learning programs or courses, global learning community service, etc.) that students will use to submit evidence for the certification |
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